In most organizations, product and engineering teams collaborate to build and deploy great products.
The Product Manager or Product Owner conveys the users’ needs as specifications to the engineering team, and the engineering team then converts these specifications into products. Each team plays an important role in the process, and this functional division of labor often produces good results.
However, if you’re looking to build products that will be impactful, all teams involved in the product-building process must share a common understanding of the users’ problems and needs, as well as joint responsibility for meeting those needs. This requires less division of labor and more of a product management culture.
If you’re wondering how to make your organization or team more product-centric, you’re in luck. On our Tech Leaders Hub series, we recently interviewed Ron Zionpour, the Research and Development (R&D) Group Lead at Monday.com. Ron highlighted the importance of having a product management culture in your organization and shared his advice on building a team with the product management culture.
Keep reading to learn practical ways of implementing the product ownership culture in your organization to make sure everyone on your team is a Product Owner!